The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

We walked down to the emergency room and reviewed his chart. Then things started to get a little bit different… His chest x-ray had some peripheral infiltrates, and the emergency department providers ordered a CT scan. Would I’ve been able to reason my way to his underlying diagnosis from the initial data?

Illness 52

Illness Diagnosis Emergency Room Diagnose 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis. Sarah 24:24 See, I usually always present it as these are things we should think of.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? That put me in the emergency room. They want to be able to manage their own symptoms. Eloise 36:49 I would first present to you what I think your options are.

Medical 98

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? ” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.” It can help prevent disability, or it can make a diagnosis and that’s it.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. ” And we can offer things, someone presents with a nutritional need, but we can say, ask about, “Do you need grab bars in your shower? Eric: And Susan?

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. Juliet: And so the question is like, how do we… There are these massive shifts because that’s not just about symptom management.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Family 98